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Paksitan and Afghanistan trading accusations at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The Afghan envoy criticised Pakistan for using an incorrect photo while accusing India of rights violation in Kashmir.
On a day when India ripped apart Pakistan in the United Nations General Assembly, Afghanistan joined the chorus against Islamabad at a separate forum at UN. On Monday, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, a meeting where the Pakistani and Afghan envoys clashed over the issue of terrorism.
Afghanistan also used the meeting to sound out the use of "fake images" and "changed narratives" by Pakistan to suit itself, reiterating what India's First Secretary in the Permanent Mission to the UN, Paulomi Tripathi had said in the General Assembly when India exercised its 'Right of Reply' to expose Pakistan's lies.
Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani who attended the forum said that Pakistan has been exporting terrorism across border for decades.
"The scourge of terrorism and violent extremism affecting Afghanistan is the product of a long-standing policy of a neighboring state to keep Afghanistan unstable. It has menaced Afghanistan for several decades now with its roots in terror sanctuaries and safe havens located outside of my country", he said.
He also alluded to the fact that Pakistan has lost its reputation with its continued support to terror organisations. Minister Rabbani said, "Pakistan has so far failed to respond positively at its own cost, particularly in relation to its global reputation and standing."
Pakistan's envoy to UN Maleeha Lodhi in her statement responded to the Afghan Foreign Minister's charges by rejecting them outright and saying that the insecurities in Afghanistan lies "within" rather than "outside".
Lodhi, who had earlier tried to pass off a Palestinian as a girl injured in Kashmir, said, "The Afghan government would therefore be better advised to focus more seriously on its persisting challenges and embark on a course correction rather than blaming others".
India also hit out at Pakistan on the issue of terrorism at the UNSC meeting, urging the world to ensure that "forces of terrorism and extremism" do not find "sanctuaries" and "safe havens" anywhere.
India's Ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin said, "We must not differentiate between good and bad terrorists, or play one group against the other. The Taliban, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and others of their ilk are all terror organizations, many of them proscribed by the UN. They should be treated like terrorist organizations with no justifications offered for their activities."
Following India's statement, both Afghanistan and Pakistan spoke again, exercising their respective 'Rights of Reply'. The Afghan Permanent Representative to UN Mahmoud Saikal took a jibe at Lodhi's photo faux pas and said told Islamabad that its policy of "deception" has no future.
"We hope to see a constructive engagement rather than a continuation of the all familiar plausible deniability and attempts of different kinds to change narrative through fake and distorted facts and figures and images. This kind of behavior will bear no fruit for peace," Saikal said.
The Pakistani diplomat then responded to Afghan envoy's RoR to reject the claims made by Saikal. "We regret that the Afghan Permanent Representative has yet again chosen to criticise Pakistan for its internal problems. We reject such insinuations, he said, adding, "Pakistan is not prepared to be a scapegoat for other countries' failures."
This was yet another forum that witnessed a bitter war of words between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the issue of support that Pkaistan as a state provides to terrorist networks. Earlier, the international body witnessed many in member nations of South Asia including Bangladesh raise the same issue.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...r-maleeha-lodhi-photo-faux-pax/1/1056134.html
On a day when India ripped apart Pakistan in the United Nations General Assembly, Afghanistan joined the chorus against Islamabad at a separate forum at UN. On Monday, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, a meeting where the Pakistani and Afghan envoys clashed over the issue of terrorism.
Afghanistan also used the meeting to sound out the use of "fake images" and "changed narratives" by Pakistan to suit itself, reiterating what India's First Secretary in the Permanent Mission to the UN, Paulomi Tripathi had said in the General Assembly when India exercised its 'Right of Reply' to expose Pakistan's lies.
Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani who attended the forum said that Pakistan has been exporting terrorism across border for decades.
"The scourge of terrorism and violent extremism affecting Afghanistan is the product of a long-standing policy of a neighboring state to keep Afghanistan unstable. It has menaced Afghanistan for several decades now with its roots in terror sanctuaries and safe havens located outside of my country", he said.
He also alluded to the fact that Pakistan has lost its reputation with its continued support to terror organisations. Minister Rabbani said, "Pakistan has so far failed to respond positively at its own cost, particularly in relation to its global reputation and standing."
Pakistan's envoy to UN Maleeha Lodhi in her statement responded to the Afghan Foreign Minister's charges by rejecting them outright and saying that the insecurities in Afghanistan lies "within" rather than "outside".
Lodhi, who had earlier tried to pass off a Palestinian as a girl injured in Kashmir, said, "The Afghan government would therefore be better advised to focus more seriously on its persisting challenges and embark on a course correction rather than blaming others".
India also hit out at Pakistan on the issue of terrorism at the UNSC meeting, urging the world to ensure that "forces of terrorism and extremism" do not find "sanctuaries" and "safe havens" anywhere.
India's Ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin said, "We must not differentiate between good and bad terrorists, or play one group against the other. The Taliban, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and others of their ilk are all terror organizations, many of them proscribed by the UN. They should be treated like terrorist organizations with no justifications offered for their activities."
Following India's statement, both Afghanistan and Pakistan spoke again, exercising their respective 'Rights of Reply'. The Afghan Permanent Representative to UN Mahmoud Saikal took a jibe at Lodhi's photo faux pas and said told Islamabad that its policy of "deception" has no future.
"We hope to see a constructive engagement rather than a continuation of the all familiar plausible deniability and attempts of different kinds to change narrative through fake and distorted facts and figures and images. This kind of behavior will bear no fruit for peace," Saikal said.
The Pakistani diplomat then responded to Afghan envoy's RoR to reject the claims made by Saikal. "We regret that the Afghan Permanent Representative has yet again chosen to criticise Pakistan for its internal problems. We reject such insinuations, he said, adding, "Pakistan is not prepared to be a scapegoat for other countries' failures."
This was yet another forum that witnessed a bitter war of words between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the issue of support that Pkaistan as a state provides to terrorist networks. Earlier, the international body witnessed many in member nations of South Asia including Bangladesh raise the same issue.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...r-maleeha-lodhi-photo-faux-pax/1/1056134.html
